Artist Quotes · Page 68

I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.

— Wade Guyton

Art should be for everyone, not just the rich.

— Zawe Ashton

“Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.”

— Austin Kleon

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

— David Sedaris

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

— Marina Abramovic

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

— Georg Baselitz

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim

— Oscar Wilde

“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”

— Dan Simmons

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you…

— iO Tillett Wright

“...for, in [William] Morris's words, 'a work of utility might also be a work of art, if we cared to make it…

— Ewan Clayton

Painting pictures in our mind of what we want serves as the foundation for greater living and greater relationships.

— Mary Morrissey

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

— Etta James

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

— David Byrne

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.

— Tom DeLonge

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are…

— Paul Schrader

Well, I'd say that the beginning of this thing came through with Art of This Century, Peggy Guggenheim's, where she opened this…

— Lee Krasner

Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the…

— Georg Baselitz

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality…

— Joseph Alsop

I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the…

— Roger Scruton

I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create,…

— Amanda Palmer

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points…

— Anonymous

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high…

— Chick Corea

I started off playing by ear, and being around a bunch of musicians and playing in the streets and in the different…

— Troy Andrews

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

— Bappi Lahiri

There was very little art in my childhood.

— Jasper Johns

No matter what kind of artist you are, you like good music.

— Lil Jon

In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme.

— Swami Vivekananda

More than a process, painting is being possessed...

— Philip Guston

One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.

— Rose McGowan

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

— Louisa May Alcott

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

— Lionel Richie

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

— Erich Fromm

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

— Jackson Pollock

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.

— Pablo Picasso

Galleries, and they're all the same, and rightly so, they sell work.

— Kim Weston

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

— Victor Hugo

“Art thrives in times of uncertainty.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

A wild, untamed youth learns nobility through art.

— Jacques d'Amboise

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe